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BEER 000L311. No. 255,758. Patented Apr. 4,1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEMEN J. BIRGIJER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOB TO THE FIRM OF F. O. DECKEBAOH, OF SAME PLACE.

BEER-COOLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,758, dated April 4, 1882 Application filed December 8,1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEMEN J. BIRGLER, of the city of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beer-Coolers, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention is especially applicable to those beer-coolers in which the beer is introduced into atrough and allowed to trickle over a coil of pipes kept cool by a continuous current of cold water passing through them; and it consists of an improved apparatus for lifting and tilting the beer-trough.

Heretofore ordinarily the trough had to be lifted out of its supports and taken down by hand and then washed,and then lifted upinto its place again by hand. In this way many accidents happened to the trough, and also to the people handling it, especially in the wintertime, when the trough and its surroundings and the floor were coated with ice. To obviate these disadvantages the trough has been hung on trunnions over vertical fiat coils, and when, on account of the sediment collected in the trough, filtered out from the beer, it became necessary to clean the trough, the latter was merely turned on its trunnions and the c011- tents poured out over the cooling-pipes. It then became necessary to clean the whole coil of this slush-a tedious and unsatisfactory process. Furthermore, the trough was left in an unhandy, unsteady position for thorough cleanin g-an operation usually performed by means of a hose.

The special object of my invention is to avoid these difficulties and provide an apparatus which shall lift the trough away from the beerpipes, then reverse it, and also holditin a conven'ient and steady position to be cleaned.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification, Figure 1 represents anend view of a trough provided with my improved lifting and tilting apparatus andin its usual position over the coil. Fig.2 represents the same trough in the position it occupies after being lifted and tilted. Fig. 3 represents a front view of a trough provided with myimproved lifting and tilting device.

A is the trough, which rests in Ys or arms B. From one of the arms B of theY a small lug, 0, projects. A lever, I), is fulcrumed at c, and has in its end 01 a slot, at, which fits over a pin, a, projecting from the end of the trough A. ,The pin a projects from a point on the opposite side of themedian line of the trough A from where the fulcrum c is located. A suitable fastening 'deviceas the nut a, screwed to the pin a-holds the lever D in position on the pin a...

The apparatus Just described may be put on one or both ends. If only applied to one end, a modification of the apparatus is used on the other end. This modification consists in dispensing with the handle-arm of the lever D. In either case the fulcrum-rod c connects the lever of both ends, so that moving one lever moves the other also. The tops of correspondin g arms B of the Ys are connected by rods b, on which the edges of the trough rest. See Fig. 3.) When the trough is long it is usually necessary to support it at a point or points between the ends. Such a support is shown in Fig. 3 of drawings, and is indicated by letter B.

The method of operation is as follows: The handle of the lever D is depressed, lifting the trough A, and, because of the position of the pin a, tipping the trough, as shown in Fig. 2. When fully raised the trough A drops slightly, this motion being permitted by the slots 11. The lever D is limited in its motion by the frame of the coil, against which it rests when I are, first, the trough can be quickly lifted and tilted by one man; secondly,much. wear and tear of the trough is avoided; thirdly, my invention enables me to use supports for the trough at any desired points between the ends of said trough, thereby preventing the trough from being bent or broken at the center.

Having thus described myinvention, what I "claim as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A beer-cooler provided with means, substantially as described, for lifting and tilting the beer-trough in such a manner that the washings from the trough will notfall on the pipes below it, substantially as described.

2. A beer-cooler provided with apparatus for lifting the beer-trough to one side of the pipes and tilting and allowing it to fall back in position over the pipes, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. The combination of arms B, lever D, provided with slot d, and trough A,provided with 15 pin a, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

4. The combination of connecting fulcrumrod 0 and the apparatus at each end of the beer-trough, consisting of the arms B and le- 20 ver D, provided with slot d, and pin a, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

LEMEN J. BIRGLER.

Witnesses:

A. S. LUDLOW, E. It. HILL. 

